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Post by melanell on May 31, 2015 18:35:19 GMT
Not margaret , nobody pronounces it right. EVER Huh. That's a pretty common name around here and although our regional accent is pretty lazy at times, I would say I typically hear both "a"s pronounced when the full name is used.
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Post by MorellisCupcake on May 31, 2015 18:37:05 GMT
Two of my favorite girl names are Elise and Liane (Lee Ann).
DD, who was named an uber-common name by her father, is now 21 and told me recently I should have named her Eleanor and called her Norah.
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Post by lucyg on May 31, 2015 19:11:09 GMT
I don't even know what you're talking about. ETA my Margaret is called Meggie or Meg most of the time. Are you a Margaret, too? How do you pronounce it and how do people always mispronounce it? [br It is mar/ga/ret not margret. I have found that only French and Spanish pronounce it right. Oh, I say mar/gar/et but I don't notice much or care if others say margret. I will have to ask my daughter exactly how she says it. I've never noticed. I'll report back if she's also annoyed by margret. She's kind of a flower child so she probably doesn't care.
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Post by scorpeao on May 31, 2015 19:19:31 GMT
[br It is mar/ga/ret not margret. I have found that only French and Spanish pronounce it right. Oh, I say mar/gar/et but I don't notice much or care if others say margret. I will have to ask my daughter exactly how she says it. I've never noticed. I'll report back if she's also annoyed by margret. She's kind of a flower child so she probably doesn't care. My dd is a Naomi. I cannot tell you how many people say "Nye-oh-me" even after correcting them. She's given up and just answers to Nye-omi. At the end of her freshman year her band director took her aside and asked how to pronounce her name because the kids were correcting him; they all said it was Nye-omi. My dd said she didn't care and he told her she needed to care because he was not spending the next 3 years being corrected on the pronunciation.
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Post by ellen on May 31, 2015 19:21:42 GMT
Out of the names you listed, I like Louisa the best. I'm not crazy about Clementine, but I do like it as a middle name with Louisa. My daughter's middle name is the one my husband really wanted to use for her first name. It sounded great in combination with the name we chose, so it was a nice way to use two names we liked.
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Post by maryland on May 31, 2015 19:24:48 GMT
I love Clementine and Cecelia!
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Post by back to *pea*ality on May 31, 2015 19:28:31 GMT
I think you need to meet her first and see what name fits her best. Good luck.
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Post by lucyg on May 31, 2015 19:29:00 GMT
Oh, I say mar/gar/et but I don't notice much or care if others say margret. I will have to ask my daughter exactly how she says it. I've never noticed. I'll report back if she's also annoyed by margret. She's kind of a flower child so she probably doesn't care. My dd is a Naomi. I cannot tell you how many people say "Nye-oh-me" even after correcting them. She's given up and just answers to Nye-omi. At the end of her freshman year her band director took her aside and asked how to pronounce her name because the kids were correcting him; they all said it was Nye-omi. My dd said she didn't care and he told her she needed to care because he was not spending the next 3 years being corrected on the pronunciation. I always wondered about that. I don't know any Naomis but I've always said nay, not nye. But most people seem to say nye. Good to know I'm saying it right.
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Post by Nanner on May 31, 2015 19:55:56 GMT
Of the 3 you listed, my favourite is Louisa. I love that name Also really like the names Elinor, Naomi and Carolyn.
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Post by rainangel on May 31, 2015 21:28:17 GMT
If you're being literary, how about Bronte, Imogen or Harper? I love Luisa, like Cecilia, and while Clementine is okay, I wouldn't be able to stop singing that song. I also don't like Clem or Clemmie as a shortened version. I don't want to hijack the thread, but could you explain how Imogen is a literary reference? We have someone in out family named Imogen, picked because it was pretty. It would be nice to have a literary reference to go with it
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Post by rainangel on May 31, 2015 21:40:49 GMT
How about Lydia? In Norway, the name Nora has a strong literary reference from the play Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen. Ibsen was sort of like our Shakespeare. Nora in the play is a strong woman who in the end leaves the safety/constraint of a marriage (after being kept like a pretty doll in their house), which was unheard of at the time. Great literary character for a strong girl I heard that in Chinese, feminism is called noraism. Named after Nora from Doll's House. We considered Nora for one of our daughters, but it just didn't sound right spoken with an Australian accent, it sounded too nasal.
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Post by lesley on May 31, 2015 22:16:40 GMT
If you're being literary, how about Bronte, Imogen or Harper? I love Luisa, like Cecilia, and while Clementine is okay, I wouldn't be able to stop singing that song. I also don't like Clem or Clemmie as a shortened version. I don't want to hijack the thread, but could you explain how Imogen is a literary reference? We have someone in out family named Imogen, picked because it was pretty. It would be nice to have a literary reference to go with it Imogen was the daughter of King Cymbeline in Shakespeare's play Cymbeline. I also love Rosalind from Shakespeare, but I can't remember if 'R' is an acceptable initial or not!
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Post by rickmer on May 31, 2015 23:05:48 GMT
i like clementine...i agree with previous poster, my kids wouldn't know "oh my darling..." song. i remember the first time i heard harrison as a name... oh gee... harrison ford. i hear it so often now and don't even think of harrison ford. neither do the kids... it is just a name to them. i like eloise. could shorten to elle, ella, ellie.... also love india.
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